Spörer (moon crater)

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Spörer
Ptolemaeus + Alphonsus + Hipparchus + Albategnius - LROC - WAC.JPG
Spörer (top left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)
Spörer (moon equatorial region)
Spörer
position 4.35 °  S , 1.82 °  W Coordinates: 4 ° 21 '0 "  S , 1 ° 49' 12"  W
diameter 27 km
depth 320 m
Card sheet 77 (PDF)
Named after Gustav Spörer (1822–1895)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Spörer is an impact crater on the front of the moon southeast of the Sinus Medii , southeast of the Flammarion crater and north of Herschel . The crater is heavily eroded, the rim of the crater in the south almost eroded.

List of side craters of Spörer
Letter position diameter link
A. 3.46 °  S , 2.12 °  W 5 km [1]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Gustav Spörer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .